Domain analysis by means of the visualization of maps of vast scientific domains

Vargas-Quesada, Benjamín, De-Moya-Anegón, Félix, Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Zaida and González-Molina, Antonio Domain analysis by means of the visualization of maps of vast scientific domains., 2006 . In I Internacional Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences & Technologies, Mérida (Spain), 25th-28th October 2006. [Conference paper]

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English abstract

Category cocitation and its representation through social networks is proving to be a very adequate technique for the visualization and analysis of great scientific domains. Its combination with PathfinderNetworks using pruning values r = ∞and q = n – 1 makes manifest the essence of research in the domain represented, or what we might call the “most salient structure”. The possible loss of structural information, caused by agressive pruning in perpheral areas of the networks, is neatly overcome by creating heliocentric maps for each category. The depictions obtained with this procedure become tools of great utility in view of their capacity to reveal the evolution of a given scientific domain over time, to show differences and similarities between different domains, and to suggest possible new lines of development.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Information visualization, Domain analysis, Cocitation, Scientific output, SCImago Group, Atlas of Science.
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AC. Relationship of LIS with other fields .
B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
B. Information use and sociology of information > BI. User interfaces, usability.
I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation.
L. Information technology and library technology > LQ. Library automation systems.
Depositing user: Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez
Date deposited: 18 Dec 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:05
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8628

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